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WALLACE IS AWARDED $11,000 VERDICT JURY DECIDES AGAINST NORRIS VETERAN ICE MANUFACTURER LOSES ON THIRD CALLING Felix Wallace, local mail carrier, 608 W. Walnut Street through his attorneys, Charles W. Anderson, Jr., and Harry S. McAlpin, was awarded a verdict by an all white jury of six men and six women in the sum of $11,830.40 against A. R. Norris, trading and doing business as the Crescent Hill Ice Co., this week, in the Courtroom of Judge Roscoe Conkling, presiding judge of the Common Pleas Branch, 1st Division. Wallace, through his attorneys, had filed a petition in the local circuit court alleging that on May 17, 1946, while carrying mail on his regular route along 8th and Breckinridge that an ice truck of the Crescent Hill Ice Co. was being operated by the driver, a man named Griffith, in such a wreckless and negligent manner and with such a defective body that the body of the truck came off of the chassis and rolled up on the pavement striking him as he was delivering his mail. Wallace claimed that he was knocked unconscious, suffered a broken toe, his right leg was fractured, and that he sustained lacerations of the face and body, and was later confined at both the Marine and Nichols Hospitals. He filed suit for $13,000. Prior to the trial this week the case had once before been presented to a jury but a mistrial was declared because one of Wallace's physicians, Dr. R. B. Crane, Marine Hospital, mentioned the word "insurance" which is not permissible in court, and a mistrial was declared. Upon the second calling of the case the judge directed a verdict for the defendant, A. R. Norris, because under the Kentucky law at the time it was held that the plaintiff Wallace could not prove the truck was defective. Immediately upon this ruling of the court, Mr. Anderson appealed the case to the Kentucky Court of Appeals where that court established some new law in Kentucky by ruling in favor of Wallace and directing the lower court to submit the case to a jury under a new ruling of law that where a defective condition is shown about a truck or car even though not proven in detail that it's for the jury to decide and not the judge of the court. Norris operates an ice plant at 9th and Chestnut Streets, and has been in the ice business since about 1916. Mr. Wallace has been employed at the postoffice since 1942 as a mail-carrier, and had previously attended Wilberforce University.
BAPTISTS TO MEET HERE Louisville will play host to more than 20,000 members of the National Baptist Sunday School and B. T. U. Congress which meets here June 19-25 at the Jefferson County Armory, it was announced here this week. This religious meet with Dr. W. H. Jernigan as president will conduct certain phases of its convention at Madison Junior High and Central. Headquarters will be at the Zion Baptist Church, 22nd and Walnut. A pre-Congress chorus of 500 voices under the direction of Mrs. W. C. Buford and Mrs. Barbara S. Miller is scheduled to open the Congress Monday night, according to Rev. M. M. Perdue, chairman of publicity. Accommodations for housing has been made, the chairman added. Including dining room concessions, the Armory officials have offered 52 concessions to the delegates all the accommodations necessary for the meet.
LEARNING TO BAKE AN APPLE PIE
Miss Thelma Alfred, student at the Margaret Murray Washington Vocational high school of Washington, D.C., exhibits her first apple pie which she learned to make at the school under the direction of her teacher, Miss G. E. Jones. Now, while apples are plentiful, the school serves them in many delicious ways. The U. S. Department of Agriculture encourages increased consumption of abundant crops to help assure their maximum use.
--USDA Photo by Forsythe.
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KENTUCKY ANTES UP ON REGIONAL SCHOOL PLAN In a last minute scramble to clear up its legislative docket and adjourn, the Kentucky General Assembly early Saturday morning passed an administration sponsored appropriation bill ear-marking $14,000 as this state's contribution to the Southern Regional Education Pact.
Thus Kentucky answered the Supreme Court ruling that Negroes must be given the same educational opportunities as any other citizen. The Southern Regional Education Pact came as an answer to numerous petitions of Negroes throughout the South that they were being deprived of their rights as citizens in their respective states by being forced to attend admittedly sub-standard Negro school.
Complete plans of the "die-hards" who conceived the Regional Plan have not been released. But it is believed by several prominent Negro educators, who asked that they not be named, that one of the top Southern schools now in existence will be built up as the regional school for Negroes.
$10 A Plate Dinner for Durham School Suit
UN DELEGATE BRINGS PEACE MESSAGE TO CITY HER DAY . . . Was a busy one when Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of the late FDR, made a flying trip to Louisville last week. Here she is shown with former National Housing Expeditor Wilson W. Wyatt, who was one of the welcoming committee. Courier-Journal Photo.
36TH NATIONAL NEGRO HEALTH WEEK TO BEGIN ON APRIL 2
Beginning April 2 through April 9, Kentucky, along with the rest of the nation, will observe National Negro Health Wealth Week. This will mark the 36th observance of the week, which was organized by Booker T. Washington in 1915. There are 218,153 Negroes in Kentucky, according to an estimate as of July 1, 1948, and to them and the state as a whole observance of National Negro Health Week has a special significance. Urging statewide observance of this week, Dr. Bruce Underwood, State Health Commissioner, asserted that if Kentucky's greatest resource is to remain her people, it must be all her people. Kentucky's Negro health programs are constantly expanding on a county and community basis and observance of this week will service to call attention to the excellent work being carried on for and by the Negroes in the state, the Commissioner said. The day by day schedule for the week is as follows: Sunday, April 2, Mobilization Day; Monday, April 3, Home Health Day; Tuesday, April 4, Community Sanitation Day; Wednesday, April 5, Special Campaign Day; Thursday, April 6, Adults' Health Day; Friday, April 7, School Health and Safety Day; Saturday, April 8, General Clean-Up Day, and Sunday, April 9, Report and Follow-up Day. Although one week has been especially set aside for the observance of Negro Health, the National Negro Health Movement has outlined a 12-month community health program with the motto "Plan Your Work, then Work Your Plan."
BUTTERMAN'S ICE CREAM AND BORDEN COMPANY JOIN HANDS
[Butterman] Ice Cream Company, Inc., one of Kentucky's oldest and best known ice cream manufacturers, became affiliated with the Borden Company March 16.
G.G. Butterman, president of the company since it was founded 20 years ago, announced the transaction. He said there would be no change in the company's policies, practices or products. All officials and employees of the concern will remain in their present capacities. Products will be sold under the same brand names-[Butterman] All Cream Ice Cream and Mollenbach Pure Ice Cream. These are sold in Louisville and surrounding Kentucky communities within a radius of 90 miles.
"In making the decision to become associated with Borden's," [Butterman] said, "we considered the best interests of all concerned-our customers, dealers and employees. We feel this new affiliation will help the company continue its progress. It will make it possible for us to broaden our service to dealers and the public and to maintain our high quality standards."
Under Borden's policy of [hometown] management, direction of the company will stay in local hands. [Butterman] will head the organization and other top officials will continue with the company. They are: Peter K. Hollenbach, 120 Travois Road, vice president; William C. Stockhoff, 3316 Chickadee Road, sales manager and secretary and treasurer; Joseph G. Hessell, 2026 Frankfort Ave., production manager; and Phil P. Weis, 1020 Berry Boulevard, office manager. Borden's is one of the country's oldest dairy companies.
Many Disabled Now Work
MRS. ROOSEVELT VISITS LOUISVILLE
HAS BUSY DAY WHILE HERE SAYS BELIEF IN CITIZENSHIP AND DEMOCRACY TO BRING PEACE The nation that lives its beliefs in citizenship and democracy, day after day under a certain amount of tension, will be the nation that brings about the atmosphere for peace, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, U. S. delegate to the United Nations Conference, told an indiscriminately mixed audience at Memorial Auditorium here last Wednesday night. "We have got to face the fact that we are going to live in a fairly dangerous world. . . We must have the courage to go on learning about our neighbors until gradually they learn about us--about our intention. We have to prove we do not want to use force to build up cooperation in the world," the widow of F.D.R. explained. Barriers to Cross Telling of her personal experiences as the only American woman delegate to UN, she pointed out that in the United Nations organization one realizes that differences in background, religion, language and customs are the barriers to be overcome. Mrs. Roosevelt was kept busy from the time she arrived in Louisville with press, radio and speaking conferences. At the press conference she was asked to comment on cancellation of her television show on which singer Paul Robeson was to have appeared. "I don't handle the show," she explained. "My son, Elliot and another man do. I think probably the people who protested Mr. Robeson's appearance didn't realize that he wouldn't have had unlimited time to express his point of view. It was to have been a general discussion on "The Position of the Negro in American Political Life." Deplores Witch-Hunt Commenting further on Senator McCarthy's anti-Communist campaign Mrs. Roosevelt said: "Have we really reached the point where each of us is afraid to join an organization which may have been or may become Communistic? If you worked for U. S.-Soviet friendship during the war, now they tell you that smears you as a Communist. It's ridiculous! "I worked for Yugoslav relief because I felt that we owed it (Continued on page 4)
Police Face Murder Trial
Lexington, Ky., Mar. 20 -- Two city policemen accused of shooting 17-year-old David Lee Hanley in the back as he allegedly tried to escape their custody September 1, 1949, face charges of murder April 10 in the Fayette County Circuit Court.
The two men are William B. Foster and William Lewis, both white. This case has attracted state-wide attention among Negroes and whites because of its alleged cold-bloodedness.
Both officers, at a preliminary hearing, testified they fired at Hanley after the youth leaped from their car and ran as they were taking him to headquarters to face a burglary count. He was struck by one bullet.
The two officers, now under suspension from the police force but at liberty on $2,500 bond each, were indicted by the January grand jury, to which the case was re-submitted after a previous grand jury did not return a true bill against them.
Commonwealth's Attorney James Park said that James A. Crumlin, Louisville, state attorney for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, would participate in the prosecution of the case.
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GEORGE BALDOCK PASSES AWAY Funeral services for George Baldock, 4016 Greenwood, were held at 2 p. m. Thursday at the Virginia Ave. Baptist Church. Burial was at Greenwood Cemetery. Baldock, who died at 10:30 p. m. at the General Hospital, served with Engine Co. No. 8 from 1925 to 1937 and with Engine Co. No. 9 until 1946. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Agnes Baldock; daughter, Mrs. Emma Ferguson; two brothers, two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Firemen from Nashville, Evansville, Indianapolis and from two companies here in Louisville were pallbearers and honorary pallbearers along with representatives from the Louisville Police Department.
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WALLACE IS AWARDED $11,000 VERDICT JURY DECIDES AGAINST NORRIS VETERAN ICE MANUFACTURER LOSES ON THIRD CALLING Felix Wallace, local mail carrier, 608 W. Walnut Street through his attorneys, Charles W. Anderson, Jr., and Harry S. McAlpin, was awarded a verdict by an all white jury of six men and six women in the sum of $11,830.40 against A. R. Norris, trading and doing business as the Crescent Hill Ice Co., this week, in the Courtroom of Judge Roscoe Conkling, presiding judge of the Common Pleas Branch, 1st Division. Wallace, through his attorneys, had filed a petition in the local circuit court alleging that on May 17, 1946, while carrying mail on his regular route along 8th and Breckinridge that an ice truck of the Crescent Hill Ice Co. was being operated by the driver, a man named Griffith, in such a wreckless and negligent manner and with such a defective body that the body of the truck came off of the chassis and rolled up on the pavement striking him as he was delivering his mail. Wallace claimed that he was knocked unconscious, suffered a broken toe, his right leg was fractured, and that he sustained lacerations of the face and body, and was later confined at both the Marine and Nichols Hospitals. He filed suit for $13,000. Prior to the trial this week the case had once before been presented to a jury but a mistrial was declared because one of Wallace's physicians, Dr. R. B. Crane, Marine Hospital, mentioned the word "insurance" which is not permissible in court, and a mistrial was declared. Upon the second calling of the case the judge directed a verdict for the defendant, A. R. Norris, because under the Kentucky law at the time it was held that the plaintiff Wallace could not prove the truck was defective. Immediately upon this ruling of the court, Mr. Anderson appealed the case to the Kentucky Court of Appeals where that court established some new law in Kentucky by ruling in favor of Wallace and directing the lower court to submit the case to a jury under a new ruling of law that where a defective condition is shown about a truck or car even though not proven in detail that it's for the jury to decide and not the judge of the court. Norris operates an ice plant at 9th and Chestnut Streets, and has been in the ice business since about 1916. Mr. Wallace has been employed at the postoffice since 1942 as a mail-carrier, and had previously attended Wilberforce University.
BAPTISTS TO MEET HERE Louisville will play host to more than 20,000 members of the National Baptist Sunday School and B. T. U. Congress which meets here June 19-25 at the Jefferson County Armory, it was announced here this week. This religious meet with Dr. W. H. Jernigan as president will conduct certain phases of its convention at Madison Junior High and Central. Headquarters will be at the Zion Baptist Church, 22nd and Walnut. A pre-Congress chorus of 500 voices under the direction of Mrs. W. C. Buford and Mrs. Barbara S. Miller is scheduled to open the Congress Monday night, according to Rev. M. M. Perdue, chairman of publicity. Accommodations for housing has been made, the chairman added. Including dining room concessions, the Armory officials have offered 52 concessions to the delegates all the accommodations necessary for the meet.
LEARNING TO BAKE AN APPLE PIE
Miss Thelma Alfred, student at the Margaret Murray Washington Vocational high school of Washington, D.C., exhibits her first apple pie which she learned to make at the school under the direction of her teacher, Miss G. E. Jones. Now, while apples are plentiful, the school serves them in many delicious ways. The U. S. Department of Agriculture encourages increased consumption of abundant crops to help assure their maximum use.
--USDA Photo by Forsythe.
A Miracle in Mississippi
KENTUCKY ANTES UP ON REGIONAL SCHOOL PLAN In a last minute scramble to clear up its legislative docket and adjourn, the Kentucky General Assembly early Saturday morning passed an administration sponsored appropriation bill ear-marking $14,000 as this state's contribution to the Southern Regional Education Pact.
Thus Kentucky answered the Supreme Court ruling that Negroes must be given the same educational opportunities as any other citizen. The Southern Regional Education Pact came as an answer to numerous petitions of Negroes throughout the South that they were being deprived of their rights as citizens in their respective states by being forced to attend admittedly sub-standard Negro school.
Complete plans of the "die-hards" who conceived the Regional Plan have not been released. But it is believed by several prominent Negro educators, who asked that they not be named, that one of the top Southern schools now in existence will be built up as the regional school for Negroes.
$10 A Plate Dinner for Durham School Suit
UN DELEGATE BRINGS PEACE MESSAGE TO CITY HER DAY . . . Was a busy one when Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of the late FDR, made a flying trip to Louisville last week. Here she is shown with former National Housing Expeditor Wilson W. Wyatt, who was one of the welcoming committee. Courier-Journal Photo.
36TH NATIONAL NEGRO HEALTH WEEK TO BEGIN ON APRIL 2
Beginning April 2 through April 9, Kentucky, along with the rest of the nation, will observe National Negro Health Wealth Week. This will mark the 36th observance of the week, which was organized by Booker T. Washington in 1915. There are 218,153 Negroes in Kentucky, according to an estimate as of July 1, 1948, and to them and the state as a whole observance of National Negro Health Week has a special significance. Urging statewide observance of this week, Dr. Bruce Underwood, State Health Commissioner, asserted that if Kentucky's greatest resource is to remain her people, it must be all her people. Kentucky's Negro health programs are constantly expanding on a county and community basis and observance of this week will service to call attention to the excellent work being carried on for and by the Negroes in the state, the Commissioner said. The day by day schedule for the week is as follows: Sunday, April 2, Mobilization Day; Monday, April 3, Home Health Day; Tuesday, April 4, Community Sanitation Day; Wednesday, April 5, Special Campaign Day; Thursday, April 6, Adults' Health Day; Friday, April 7, School Health and Safety Day; Saturday, April 8, General Clean-Up Day, and Sunday, April 9, Report and Follow-up Day. Although one week has been especially set aside for the observance of Negro Health, the National Negro Health Movement has outlined a 12-month community health program with the motto "Plan Your Work, then Work Your Plan."
BUTTERMAN'S ICE CREAM AND BORDEN COMPANY JOIN HANDS
[Butterman] Ice Cream Company, Inc., one of Kentucky's oldest and best known ice cream manufacturers, became affiliated with the Borden Company March 16.
G.G. Butterman, president of the company since it was founded 20 years ago, announced the transaction. He said there would be no change in the company's policies, practices or products. All officials and employees of the concern will remain in their present capacities. Products will be sold under the same brand names-[Butterman] All Cream Ice Cream and Mollenbach Pure Ice Cream. These are sold in Louisville and surrounding Kentucky communities within a radius of 90 miles.
"In making the decision to become associated with Borden's," [Butterman] said, "we considered the best interests of all concerned-our customers, dealers and employees. We feel this new affiliation will help the company continue its progress. It will make it possible for us to broaden our service to dealers and the public and to maintain our high quality standards."
Under Borden's policy of [hometown] management, direction of the company will stay in local hands. [Butterman] will head the organization and other top officials will continue with the company. They are: Peter K. Hollenbach, 120 Travois Road, vice president; William C. Stockhoff, 3316 Chickadee Road, sales manager and secretary and treasurer; Joseph G. Hessell, 2026 Frankfort Ave., production manager; and Phil P. Weis, 1020 Berry Boulevard, office manager. Borden's is one of the country's oldest dairy companies.
Many Disabled Now Work
MRS. ROOSEVELT VISITS LOUISVILLE
HAS BUSY DAY WHILE HERE SAYS BELIEF IN CITIZENSHIP AND DEMOCRACY TO BRING PEACE The nation that lives its beliefs in citizenship and democracy, day after day under a certain amount of tension, will be the nation that brings about the atmosphere for peace, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, U. S. delegate to the United Nations Conference, told an indiscriminately mixed audience at Memorial Auditorium here last Wednesday night. "We have got to face the fact that we are going to live in a fairly dangerous world. . . We must have the courage to go on learning about our neighbors until gradually they learn about us--about our intention. We have to prove we do not want to use force to build up cooperation in the world," the widow of F.D.R. explained. Barriers to Cross Telling of her personal experiences as the only American woman delegate to UN, she pointed out that in the United Nations organization one realizes that differences in background, religion, language and customs are the barriers to be overcome. Mrs. Roosevelt was kept busy from the time she arrived in Louisville with press, radio and speaking conferences. At the press conference she was asked to comment on cancellation of her television show on which singer Paul Robeson was to have appeared. "I don't handle the show," she explained. "My son, Elliot and another man do. I think probably the people who protested Mr. Robeson's appearance didn't realize that he wouldn't have had unlimited time to express his point of view. It was to have been a general discussion on "The Position of the Negro in American Political Life." Deplores Witch-Hunt Commenting further on Senator McCarthy's anti-Communist campaign Mrs. Roosevelt said: "Have we really reached the point where each of us is afraid to join an organization which may have been or may become Communistic? If you worked for U. S.-Soviet friendship during the war, now they tell you that smears you as a Communist. It's ridiculous! "I worked for Yugoslav relief because I felt that we owed it (Continued on page 4)
Police Face Murder Trial
Lexington, Ky., Mar. 20 -- Two city policemen accused of shooting 17-year-old David Lee Hanley in the back as he allegedly tried to escape their custody September 1, 1949, face charges of murder April 10 in the Fayette County Circuit Court.
The two men are William B. Foster and William Lewis, both white. This case has attracted state-wide attention among Negroes and whites because of its alleged cold-bloodedness.
Both officers, at a preliminary hearing, testified they fired at Hanley after the youth leaped from their car and ran as they were taking him to headquarters to face a burglary count. He was struck by one bullet.
The two officers, now under suspension from the police force but at liberty on $2,500 bond each, were indicted by the January grand jury, to which the case was re-submitted after a previous grand jury did not return a true bill against them.
Commonwealth's Attorney James Park said that James A. Crumlin, Louisville, state attorney for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, would participate in the prosecution of the case.
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GEORGE BALDOCK PASSES AWAY Funeral services for George Baldock, 4016 Greenwood, were held at 2 p. m. Thursday at the Virginia Ave. Baptist Church. Burial was at Greenwood Cemetery. Baldock, who died at 10:30 p. m. at the General Hospital, served with Engine Co. No. 8 from 1925 to 1937 and with Engine Co. No. 9 until 1946. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Agnes Baldock; daughter, Mrs. Emma Ferguson; two brothers, two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Firemen from Nashville, Evansville, Indianapolis and from two companies here in Louisville were pallbearers and honorary pallbearers along with representatives from the Louisville Police Department.
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